However, booking international business class
tickets at the lowest mileage levels isn't as easy as you might think.
Not exact matches
Airlines will generally issue a limited number of
lower mileage «saver» award
tickets on a flight in each class of service, and then offer additional award seats to flyers
at a premium.
It does» t even guarantee that
low - level awards (those that are available to other SkyTeam partners as well) will always be priced
at that level, since the
mileage cost of a
ticket might also vary depending on the season.
It rarely makes sense to book an award
ticket at anything other than the
lowest mileage rates, often called Saver levels.
If you include
at least one Delta operated flight in your itinerary it will price out the
mileage portion of the
ticket as if the entire itinerary was on Delta operated flights
at the
lowest level.
From the WSJ article: Delta has been rapped in recent years for having stingy awards
ticket availability
at the
lowest mileage levels.